Courses

SUMMER 2022

We taught our first face to face course since Spring last year (Forest Gardening) at Warland Farm, Todmorden West Yorkshire. Anything is possible if you have the will there’s a way.

We have an online Forest Gardening for a Future Course starting Monday 8 November with Tomas Remiraz… four days across three weeks. If you are interested e-mail me.

If you book any course and it doesn’t happen we’ll refund 100% of your fee unless you book by paypal we reserve the right to charge any fees they charge us.  They put this in abeyance at the start of April last year, but… who knows!  If in doubt just ask.  If they refuse to refund fees, in which case we’ll refund your payment less their fee.

Meanwhile we have a solution NOW with online courses.  We (Rakesh Rootsman Rak and I ) have run a second and third brilliant Training of Teachers in Permaculture course for three half days a week over four weeks in 2021 and another in April May 2022.  We used the medium of Zoom and some supporting technology.  Neither Rakesh nor I could believe how well it went.  Totally amazing and the participants were so enthusiastic.

Many people have used the challenges of Covid as a great way to invest time and  energy in our great learning experiences. Our Permaculture Design Course ran from June 2nd to 26th 2020.  Sticking with maximum three afternoons a week on Zoom and some in between work offline solo or in small groups making your own arrangements.  Facilitating this course with me (Graham Bell) were Kate Everett, Mark Shipperlee and Caspar Lampkin.  Between us we have an amazing range of experience and skills. We are looking at future possibilities for online training supplemented by open days at various sites.

Here at Garden Cottage we have over 30 years of experience in creating a forest garden and in sharing our knowledge and expertise with others. We have worked with, and indeed taught, many of the world’s well-known and well-loved permaculture tutors.

Permaculture is our passion and has been for over thirty years (just look at our history)  and we delight in sharing our knowledge and the abundance that is Garden Cottage. First and foremost that means it is about people and always has been.

You can view details of our courses and open days from the pull down menus and you can read what previous visitors have to say HERE.

If you have can’t see what you want or have any questions, please contact me via graham@grahambell.org or, better still, sign up to the newsletter to get regular updates.

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In order to make courses as experiential as possible we run them, as much as possible, from Garden Cottage, rather than from halls, hotels or meeting rooms. Obviously this isn’t possible right now. Since the garden is just 0.8 Ha or 1/5 acre and our home, there is no accommodation on site. However Coldstream is a beautiful town set in the wonderful Scottish Borders and, as such, boasts a fine array of hotels, guest houses and campsites.
Here are some useful links to places to stay;

ACCESSIBILITY

We are all individuals and we all have our own preferences and needs.  It’s very important to us that this course is suitable for attendees, and the reality is we probably don’t suit everyone.  To ensure there is no mismatch when booking we send an enrolment form (a sample for Courses can be seen here and for Open Days can be seen here) which invites you to share with us any particular accessibility needs you have.  This covers a wide range of matters, from mobility to dietary requirements and might touch on learning styles or language abilities.  Please feel free to ask for any particular concerns you have before booking if that helps.  For contact details see above.  Footnote.  We have increased typeface sizes on the website to make it more accessible.  Any comments back welcome on any issues here.